Courage to Create

August 4 - 6, 2026

Date and Time Details: August 4-6, 2026

Location: Unicamp

Address: 638159 Prince of Wales Road West, Honeywood, ON, Canada

  • Day Pass - Car load – CAD $110.24
  • Day Pass - Individual – CAD $92.54
  • Program Only – CAD $66.00
  • Dave's Cottage A (ACCESSIBLE PRIORITY) – CAD $486.00
  • Dave's Cottage B (ACCESSIBLE PRIORITY) – CAD $426.00
  • Tom's Cottage A (ACCESSIBLE PRIORITY) – CAD $426.00
  • Tom's Cottage B (ACCESSIBLE PRIORITY) – CAD $426.00
  • Room in Rosie's Cottage – CAD $268.00
  • Room in Nellie's Cottage – CAD $268.00
  • Poplar A - Private (All Twin) – CAD $260.00
  • Poplar B - Private (Includes Double) – CAD $294.00
  • Maple A - Private (All Twin) – CAD $260.00
  • Maple B - Private (includes Double) – CAD $294.00
  • Oak A - Private (All Twin) – CAD $260.00
  • Oak B - Private (Includes Double) – CAD $294.00
  • Walnut A - Private (All Twin) – CAD $260.00
  • Walnut B - Private (Includes Double) – CAD $294.00
  • Cedar A - Private (includes Double) – CAD $294.00
  • Cedar B - Private (All Twin) – CAD $260.00
  • Pine A - Private (All Twin) – CAD $260.00
  • Pine B - Private (Includes Double) – CAD $294.00
  • Bed in Shared Dorm – CAD $136.00
  • Hydro Site 0 – CAD $160.00
  • Hydro Site 5 – CAD $160.00
  • Hydro Site 6 – CAD $160.00
  • Hydro Campsite 12 – CAD $160.00
  • Hydro Campsite 15 – CAD $160.00
  • Hydro Campsite 16 – CAD $160.00
  • Hydro Campsite 26 – CAD $160.00
  • Site 23 Bunkie – CAD $246.00
  • Regular Campsite 9 – CAD $142.00
  • Regular Campsite 19 – CAD $142.00
  • Regular Campsite 21 – CAD $142.00
  • Regular Campsite 27 – CAD $142.00
  • Regular Campsite 29 – CAD $142.00
  • Regular Campsite 43 – CAD $142.00
  • Regular Campsite 44 – CAD $142.00
  • Regular Campsite 47 – CAD $142.00
  • WALK-IN Campsite 22 – CAD $142.00
  • WALK-IN Campsite 68 – CAD $142.00
  • WALK-IN Campsite 69 – CAD $142.00
  • Fire-Free Site 65 – CAD $138.00
  • Fire-Free Site 66 – CAD $136.00
  • Fire-Free Site 70 – CAD $138.00
  • Fire-Free Site 71 – CAD $138.00
  • Fire-Free Site 74 – CAD $138.00
  • Fire-Free Site 75 – CAD $138.00
  • Guest of Seasonal Camper – CAD $82.00
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COURAGE TO CREATE
Aug. 4-6, 2026
9:30am-12:30pm
Adult program
$66.00+HST

All proceeds to be donated to UNICAMP, as was done at last year’s retreat. 

A 3-day morning retreat offered by Ellen Forrester and Michele Cadotte.

Now, perhaps more than ever, we are called upon to meet today’s challenges with an open heart and skills that allow us to navigate whatever comes our way in this changing world. Our sessions will begin with some singing/chanting, mindful movement, meditation, poetry and reflective writing to awaken our hearts and connect with our deeper wisdom. From this place of greater awareness, you will then be invited to explore visual journaling.

This process of incorporating a visual element in journaling has been proven to nourish personal development through its emphasis on experiential practice that can provide deep pleasure, valuable solace, and clarity of self-awareness. It’s an invitation to move beyond the usually dominant thinking mode, opening the way to the gifts of visual, emotional, aesthetic, tactile senses that encourage free explorative abandon like a child in the sandbox! It’s the opposite of previously preconceived notions of perfection in a ‘final product’.

All activities are simple, accessible and suitable for everyone. Over the 3 mornings, we will explore the themes of opening to acceptance, creating space for gratitude, awakening to compassion and grounding in meaning and celebration. These qualities lay a foundation for the resiliency that allows us to be “ready for anything” and are skills we can build through wholehearted practice!

Ellen Forrester combines her 22 years as a secondary school visual art teacher with her love of playful visual expression integrated with writing in her visual journaling process. Spontaneous dancing, and singing with and for others, are always a delight. All these creative practices embody a large part of her spiritual practice. Michele Cadotte combines her experience as a yoga instructor, meditation teacher, and mental health professional with her love of music, movement, writing and intentional living. May all beings awaken, feel alive, know joy and be free!

“The deep happiness of well-being comes from caring for yourself and loving the world. It comes from offering what’s good in you to others, giving your gifts to a world that needs it.” -Jack Kornfield

All supplies are provided except a sketchbook or unlined journal of minimal 65 lb weight to it. This would prevent possible buckling of the page, as well as breakdown of fiber when applying craft paints to the page. Feel free to email Ellen Forrester for more details regarding supplies we’ll be using. ebforrester@gmail.com